Amazing pictures have emerged of a brave lion handler giving a 250kg big cat a loving foot rub.
Alex Larenty, 50, has built a unique bond with nine-year-old Jamu by tickling him on his giant paws at The Lion Park, outside Johannesburg.
"[He likes] being scratched and tickled and now his favourite game is 'This Little Piggy'," Larenty told the Daily Mail.
The English animal expert, originally from Oxfordshire, has also been known to use the intimate technique on elephants and grizzly bears.
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